We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.